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Legendary MAIDA VALE Studios To Close

According to NME.com, the BBC is planning to close its famous Maida Vale studios in west London — where such rock heavyweights as LED ZEPPELIN, IRON MAIDEN and NIRVANA have laid down sessions — explaining it's not suitable for the "21st-century digital age." The closure of the studio, which was home...

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WRETCH To Release 'Make This Garden Burn' CD At HEADBANGER'S OPEN AIR Festival

Cleveland band WRETCH will release a new CD on Auburn Records, entitled "Make This Garden Burn", to support its appearance at this year's Headbanger's Open Air Festival. The 13-track disc is a specially-priced collection of previously unreleased new songs, demos, album outtakes and live tracks. The...

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Dead Center

SELF TORTURE's "Dead Center" is the sound of rage, no two ways about it. The style is unequivocally hardcore with a sharp metallic edge that turns otherwise standard hardcore fare (albeit, the "true" kind) into something a tad more engrossing. A very tight and full mix, courtesy of Erkan Tatoglu, th...

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RAGING SPEEDHORN: New Album Release Dates Confirmed

RAGING SPEEDHORN will release its new album, "Before the Sea Was Built", on the following dates: Germany: September 7 Rest of Europe: September 10 Rest of World: September 11 "Before the Sea Was Built" was recorded at Foel Studio in North Wales with producer Larry Hibbitt. RAGING SPEEDHORN's last CD...

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GRIM REAPER Replaces MALICE At Germany's HEADBANGERS OPEN AIR Festival

STEVE GRIMMETT'S GRIM REAPER has replaced MALICE on the billing of the Headbangers Open Air festival, set to take place July 12-14 in Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany. The running order for the event is as follows: Thursday, July 12: SIXTH ALLOY (GER) 18.00-18.45 SILVER FIST (ESP) 19.00-19.50 INTENSE (...

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KING DIAMOND Guitarist WEAD Launches PROBULATOR

Swedish guitarist Mike Wead (KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE) has launched a brand new project called PROBULATOR. Joining Wead in the new band is vocalist Mouth from the Swedish black/thrash metal act NATTAS. No further information is currently available. Wead co-produced NATTAS' latest album, "Inde Deu...

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KING DIAMOND: European Tour Postponed

KING DIAMOND's management has issued the following statement: "Most regretfully we have been forced to postpone the KING DIAMOND Europe tour, scheduled for the fall of '07. King has, over the past month and a half, been suffering from severe pain in his back, and following several visits to doctors,...

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Reunited SENTINEL BEAST Working On New Album

Reunited '80s Sacramento, California thrash band SENTINEL BEAST is currently working on its second album, due out before the end of the year. In the meantime, the group has scheduled several Sacramento dates, including July 20 at the Kennel Club, August 11-12 at The Roadhouse, and August 19 at The K...

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BELIEVER Drummer's FOUNTAIN OF TEARS Project Secures Distribution Deal With NIGHTMARE

Drummer Joey Daub of the the much-missed late '80s/early '90s technical-thrash metal band BELIEVER recently issued a new album with his FOUNTAIN OF TEARS project, entitled "Fate". He checks in with the following update: "FOUNTAIN OF TEARS has inked a distro deal with Nightmare Records. We are very e...

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GREY SKIES FALLEN On The Back Burner

New York metal band GREY SKIES FALLEN has issued the following update: "This is a trying time for the band. The four of us have pretty much agreed to put GREY SKIES FALLEN on the back burner. It's been an up and down eleven years; mostly down. "People in bands know the sacrifice that goes ...

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SIG:AR:TYR Releases Two New Demo Songs

Canadian viking/pagan metal act SIG:AR:TYR has posted two new demo songs, "King of the World" and "Under the Mountain", from the forthcoming album "Beyond The North Winds" on the band's MySpace page. A three-track demo is being distributed to record companies to try to garner interest in supporting...

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DIMEBAG Book Author Defends Himself Against Accusations That He's Trying To Cash In

The author of the upcoming biography of the late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott has responded to the statement issued by members of Dimebag's family in which they distanced themselves from the book, claiming that Zac Crain "wrote nothing but negative reviews about PANTERA's mu...

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Ex-ICED EARTH/DEATH Drummer Teams Up With METALKILL To Create PC Games

Acclaimed heavy metal drummer Richard Christy (ex-ICED EARTH, DEATH, LEASH LAW, CONTROL DENIED),who currently works for "The Howard Stern Show", has teamed up with Metalkill to create a number of PC shooter and Medieval games. Their first release will be a game called Skullfuck from one of the char...

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Scream of the Iron Iconoclast

Instrumental bands, from THE FUCKING CHAMPS to DYSRHYTHMIA to KARMA TO BURN to ELECTRO QUARTERSTAFF, seem to have a really hard time with the whole categorization thing. That's all well and good for the art, but it's a bitch trying to file the damn CD at the record store. Are DYSRHYTHMIA indie rock?...

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DIMEBAG's Family Distances Itself From Upcoming Biography

The publicity firm representing the family of the late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott has issued the following statement: "The family of the late Dimebag Darrell Abbott has not authorized nor co-operated with Zac Crain on his upcoming book on Dimebag, scheduled for release on...